Unemployment Benefits

A program the state will launch this fall in northeast Pennsylvania to help unemployed residents get back to work could expand to other regions next year. Pennsylvania's implementation of a Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) program is slated to begin in October in an area serviced by the Scranton UC Service Center and four PA CareerLink locations in Scranton, Hazleton, Wilkes-Barre and Tannersville. A $418,672 grant, awarded late last month by the U.S. Labor Department, covers the development and implementation of the program, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The department is mulling over a potential expansion of the program in...

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